Stupid Letter of the Week

As you have come to understand, here are no stupid letters.  Just stupid people who write letters.  Here is this weeks winner from Philip Cardarella of Kansas City.

Supreme hypocrisy



Although hypocrisy is no stranger to the law, there is a special irony in the Supreme Court’s newly discovered “right” to bear arms — including handguns.


Only recently the same court closed its magnificent main doorway (under the iconic “Equal Justice for All” inscription) to force the public to enter through a side door, which can be monitored more securely.

Apparently the only place the five justices think anyone should be safe is inside their own workplace.

Philip F. Cardarella
Kansas City

Philip is asking the wrong question.  The question is not where did the five judges discover a right to bear arms.  The questions is how could the dissenting 4 judges not understand the plain text of the second amendment to the constitution?

The second amendment states: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.


In 2008, the U. S. Supreme Court struck down a Washington, D.C. ban on individuals having handguns in their homes. Writing for a 5 to 4 majority, Justice Scalia found the right to bear arms to be an individual right consistent with the overriding purpose of the 2nd Amendment, to maintain strong state militias.

Hey Philip, nothing was discovered.  To say it was is just plain stupid!